Thomas Gurke is Lecturer for English and Cultural Studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. His PhD-dissertation focused on the intersemiotic, aesthetic and affective dynamics of music and literature in the texts of James Joyce and is forthcoming as a monograph. Apart from James Joyce, he has also published on contemporary fiction, ecology, the short story and popular culture. Susan Winnett is Professor of American Studies and Transcultural Studies at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. She is the author of Terrible Sociability: The Text of Manners in Laclos, Goethe, and Henry James (1993) and Writing Back: American Expatriates' Narratives of Return (2012).